Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus, new analysis of ancient documents suggests. New analysis of ancient writings suggests that sailors from the Italian hometown of Christopher Columbus knew of America 150 years before its renowned 'discovery'. Transcribing and detailing a, circa, 1345 document by a Milanese friar, Galvaneus Flamma, a Medieval Latin literature expert has made an 'astonishing' discovery of an 'exceptional' passage referring to an area we know today as North America. Source 2g.
If you think about it, the land known as the Americas were known even before that to the First Nations. The ones who lived here for so long before European people 'found' the land.
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What Lights said. We as a people have been been living in this land long before European settlers decided they would steal it from us.
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